Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-17
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The State Legislature.

The State Legislature.
IN the Senate. on the 5th. the day was spent
in considering bills in the order of third read
! ing and number were disposed of. Among
! those passed were the following of gene raj i'm
/ portance: Making it misdemeanor to shoot
at a mark or any object, or at random, along or
| across any public highway; providing penalty
| OF imprisonment in the penitentiary, not ex-
| ceeding five years, for blackmail; making
! private bankers criminally responsible for re-
| ceiving deposits when a bank is in failing con-
/ dition: to prevent diseased stock OF any kind
| from running at large; to prevent the grant
| ing sending or delivering passes or tickets at
| discount to members OF the State Board Of
| Equalization, any State, judicial. county or
municipal officers. by any railroad or other
| transportation company, or any officer, agent
| or employee of any such company. and to pre-
| vent any of said officers from accepting. using
| or travelling on the same. $500 In the House the
day was spent in discussion of the General APP
propriation bill a bitter fight being made on
! the item of $4,000 for the Rolla School of
| Mines which however, retained in the bill.
| Pending discussion the House adjourned.
| IN the Senate, on the eth, the most important
business transacted the passage of the
! Senate bill to prevent intimidation of laborers
! and to provide penalty therefor, and the Rail-
| road bill; also the bill limiting the course of
| study in the public schools to photography,
| reading in English, penmanship, arithmetic,
| English grammar, geography, United States
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hygiene ...... In the House the entire.day was
| devoted to the consideration of the appropria-
| ton bills. The normal school appropriations
| were fought over. but were finally voted as
recommended by the committee; also,
the various items asked for
| improvements. The provisions appropriating
| one-third of the revenue for school purposes
! was also agreed to after sharp debate. The
| rest of the bill went through without change,
| except that $500 was appropriated for the
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| ported to the House and the committee amend
| ments agreed to. An attempt was made to de-
feat the appropriation of one-third of the rev
| enue for the public schools, but it failed, and
| that provision of the bill will go to the Senate
| which has already placed itself on record as
favoring such an appropriation. Pending
| the engrossment of the bill the House adj
| journed.
IN the Senate, on the Sth, the bill exempting
superintendent of poor-houses from jury duty
was passee, on reconsideration. A large
amount of business was pushed through, and
several bills were disposed of; that prohibiting
the employment of armed detectives by corpor-
atoms being defeated. The bill passed
providing that on and after September, 1888, all
freight cars acquired by railways shall be pro-
vided with automatic couplerS In the
House the events of the day were the passage
of the bill appropriating S25O,OOO for the i'm
provement of the State Capitol and the defeat of
the Railroad bill known as No. 620 after short
anu sharp ucDdtc. ny NOte Vi % yeas W 10
The bill to make the salaries of recorders the
same as those of circuit clerks in counties Of
less than 10000 inhabitants was passed.
IN the Senate, on the 9th, O message was re-
ceived from the Governor announcing that he
had signed the bill appropriating s2350)1 for
improvement of the State Capitol A good
/ day work accomplished in the final dis
position of bills, large batch of which were
passed The joint and concurrent resolution
providing for submitting to the people local
Option. amendment to the Constitution was in
! definitely postponed. The committee on peni-
Tertiary submitted a report highly compl-
mentary to the present management of that in
stitution. In the House the Militia bill was
take up as the special order. which resulted in
n long and interesting debate, the issue
rowing down to cities VS.. country, and the
country won by close vote Of 65 yeas to
6S nays. Several other bills were taken up
and passed, among them the Anti-Bucket-
shop bill which was carried by a vote of 90
to 49, Hon. Henry Shaw, of Ste GeneVieve.
and Acknowledgement Jameson were the re-
cipents. during the evening session, Of hand
some floral tokens from St. Louis for their eff
forts in behalf Of the State militia.
IN the Senate. the 10th, the Terminal
Facilities bill was taken up on reconsideration,
and was debated at length, and was again de-
feated. After the passage of a few bills of
minor Importance. the Senate took up the
House adiournIf En- resoittion and after debate
son, from the committee appointed for that
purpose, offered resolutions of respect to the
memory of the late Senator A. III. Edwards, OF
ST. Charles In presenting the resolutions Mr..
johnson paid a graceful and eloquent
eulogium upon the high character OF the
dead Senator, after which the SEN
ate, out of respect to the memory of the de-
ceased, adjourned In the House the Joint
and concurrent resolution memorialiZing Con-
gress to pass the militia, and pleuro-pneumonia
bills was passed. So also was the bill to estab-
lish metropolitan police force in St. Joseph.
The following We're among the bills passed:
Providing for commitment to warehouses of
persons convicted of miSdemeanors or felony:
empowering probate judges in vacation to re-
fuse to grant letters of administration when es-
tate is not greater than the amount allowed by
law to widows and minor children; requir-
ing real estate agents to have author
ity in writing to sell real estate in
order to make contracts of sale binding upon
owners; requiring presidents of telegraph, tel
ephone and tolIbridge companies to make an
nual returns: requiring executions to be con-
Quoted within an inclosure such as to shut off
public view: providing for the inspection of live
stock intended for food; devoting one-thrd of
the revenue to the school fund: to establish
court of appeals at Springfield: House bill Civ
ing prosecuting attorneys fees for each convic-
tion where parties jointly indicted are tried
separately.
IN the Senate, on the 18th the bill to reduce
the compensation of members of the General
Assembly to the requirements of the Constitu.
ton, by cutting off their per diem for coming &c
and returning from the Capital was taken up.
The bill then passed-yeas 20; nays, 6. After
this bit of virtuous action the Senate went &c
work with will and cleared its docket. among
other business defeating the bill giving the
Speaker of the House and president OF
the Senate ten dollars per day.
... In the House a number of bills were
passed, including the following: Requiring
telephone and telegraph wires to be placed un-
der ground in the city of st. Louis: to apply
one-half of the county revenue derived from
dram-shops to the improvement of country
roads ION reconsideration. An effort to recon
slider the vote by which the militia bill was de.
feated was defeated. The Deficiency bill was
considered at length in committee of the whole